If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.